Intro To Team Velos
Team Velos is a long-established Zwift club with an active racing team encompassing all levels of riders and a women’s team. Velos prides itself on helping riders improve and holds nine group rides weekly including beginner-friendly events, sprint and climb training rides, monthly route badge challenges, and our flagship Poursuite de la Lanterne Rouge with its three challenges, including a chase of the red beacon.
See upcoming Team Velos rides at zwift.com/events/tag/velos
The Classics Competition
Team Velos also hosts three weekly races: an individual time trial (Race of Truth), a “handicap” chase race, and our Monument Races on Fridays. Beginning 28 February, Velos will host a series of special events under our Monument series: The Classics Competition.
Spring is Classics season, and our goal with The Classics Competition is to present something instantly recognizable every week to cycling fans, who, for many, follow the one-day classics with as much enthusiasm as three-week grand tours.
Team member and Classics country resident Vincent Van Gestel devised our Classics Competition, which comprises 12 weeks of races on Fridays (including the five cycling Monuments), with our events corresponding to the weekends each pro event is held (liberty taken with Il Lombardia, which is held in autumn).
In addition to the 5 Monuments, seven other famous one-day classics have been selected to complete the 12-week Classics Competition. Each week, a Zwift course has been chosen to be most representative of the pro races, but every route has also been chosen to be enjoyable and competitive for D Cat to reflect the team’s ethos of helping riders at every level achieve their goals.
Schedule and Route Details
Classics Competition races happen each Friday at 7:15pm UTC/2:15pm ET/11:15am PT.
The five events marked with * count toward the Monuments Series general classification.
- Feb 28: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- Innsbruckring (Innsbruck) – 4 laps
- 35.4km, 309m
- Mar 7: Strade Bianche
- Kappa Quest (Makuri Islands) – 3 laps
- 31.3km, 541m
- Mar 14: Canadian Classics
- Downtown Dolphin (5 laps) + Castle Crit (4 laps)
- 10km, 85m + 15.5km, 223m
- *Mar 21: Milano-Sanremo
- Navig8 (Watopia) – custom finish at Sasquatch Sprint
- 38.7km, 281m
- Mar 28: Gent-Wevelgem
- Greatest London Flat (London) – 1 lap
- 31.3km, 223m
- *Apr 4: Tour of Flanders
- Richmond UCI Worlds (Richmond) – 3 laps
- 49.1km, 383m
- *Apr 11: Paris-Roubaix
- Petit Boucle (France) – custom finish at Ballon Sprint
- 54km, 365m
- Apr 18: Amstel Gold Race
- Royal Pump Room 8 (Yorkshire) – 1 lap
- 27.5km, 490m
- *Apr 25: Liège-Bastogne-Liège
- The Muckle Yin (Scotland) – 2 laps
- 47km, 564m
- May 2: La Flèche Walonne
- Peak Performance (Watopia) – custom finish atop The Grade
- 27km, 542m
- May 9: Giro dell’Emilia
- Time Trial Lap (Bologna) – 2 laps (1 full lap + 1 climb)
- 24km, 708m
- *May 16: Il Lombardia
- Rising Empire (NYC) – 2 laps
- 41.4km, 750m
See upcoming Classics Competition events at zwift.com/events/tag/velosmonument
Race Results
Results for all races (including cumulative scoring for the 5-race Monuments series) will be published on a dedicated race page. For details and updates, go to: velosmonuments.co.uk
Questions or Comments?
To learn more about Team Velos, go to: teamvelos.co.uk. Got questions? Share below!
Curious about how the Mar 14: Canadian Classics event works – is that a mid race world change?
Hi Ronald, this would a organized as a back-to-back race. You can compare this to the tiny race series.
This seems a whole lot like the Chasing Tour lineup, just shorter and not on the actual event days @Eric Schlange any Chasing news for this season?
I believe Chasing is now ECRO https://www.ecro.app/auth/sign-up. It is using a fee based model to register for the ECRO season series which mirrors the Chasing Tour 2024.
That’s really interesting and sounds like a big development. Seems like the sort of thing that would warrant an article here at ZwiftInsider
I may cover ECRO, we’ll see. I’ve got about 1000 posts on my To Do list, so if community organizers want a post published, their best bet is to send me a complete writeup like Leon did here. (See https://zwiftinsider.com/sharing-events/ for complete info on getting your community event published on Zwift Insider.)
The Chasing Tour is my reason for Zwifting. I haven’t seen any information on Zwift Insider about this years instalment. Hopefully, we get an update soon.
I may cover ECRO, we’ll see. I’ve got about 1000 posts on my To Do list, so if community organizers want a post published, their best bet is to send me a complete writeup like Leon did here. (See https://zwiftinsider.com/sharing-events/ for complete info on getting your community event published on Zwift Insider.)
Are these mass start events given that all categories have the same start time on companion app ?
Hi Niall, it is a mass start event but final positions are calculated per ZRS category.
54km for Paris-Roubaix but only 38 for Milan-Sanremo. I feel like MSR needs an after-party style route with a 100km, mostly flat lead-in.
Why isn’t Zwift insider giving face time to the superior series that mirrors the world tour? https://www.ecro.app
This series is basically the only reason why I have not fully migrated over to Rouvy.
Everyone, please do continue to hijack this post by a smaller Team trying to organize something for the Community by continuing to post about an entirely different, well established event. That’d be great, folks.